Jeremy Double wrote:

Chris Tolley wrote:
Ian Jelf wrote:

There has arisen a belief in this country that new laws have come into
place protecting what I might term "the copyright of their face", which
simply isn't true.

Not as such, no. I wonder if anyone has trademarked their face.

I'm not sure that would change much... there are plenty of photos
published with shop signs incorporating trademarks included within the
image.

That's neither here nor there. The trademarks you mention are (in the
situation I believe you are talking about) incidental.

I believe that Harland Sanders got a bit shirty about the way that the
Kentucky Fried Chicken chain was using his image some years after he had
sold the franchise. But I don't know if this was pursued under trademark
law.

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